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Sound Off: SEC Lagging

Deborah Castellani, a principal and senior fiduciary specialist with Akros Fiduciary in Austin, Texas, responded on LinkedIn to a story about advisory firms sanctioned by the SEC over their compliance programs.

'The bigger question is why it took so many years for the SEC to do something. ... What were the regulators waiting for — another Madoff or Stanford?'

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